Force Quotes
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There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
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That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.
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We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.
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Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.
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Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.
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There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter.
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Yin and Yang are one vital force -- the primordial aura.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.
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My arm feels fine. You still have to be aggressive, but if something's ugly and not there, you can't force it in.
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The force of union conquers all.
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Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
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Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
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I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was.
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In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.
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There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.
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Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.
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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.
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History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.
